Rosa Guarna buys Powerball tickets from Nimita Patel at Belltown Variety in Stamford on Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Guarna said if she won the jackpot she would give some money to each of her seven grandchildren, take a trip to Italy, and give some away to someone in need.

Barbara Stamatelos picks Powerball numbers at Belltown Variety on Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Stamatelos said she played some numbers that "seem to always come up" and some birthdays. "I never play, but this is so tempting," she said. Stamatelos said she doesn't have any plans for the money if she won. "I wouldn't know what to do with it," she said, "I couldn't imagine."

Barbara Stamatelos picks Powerball numbers at Belltown Variety on Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Stamatelos said she played some numbers that "seem to always come up" and some birthdays. "I never play, but this

Steve Dibo of Monroe shows a box filled with thousands of lottery tickets during his daily lottery purchase at News Express at 200 Tunxis Hill Road in Fairfield on Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Dibo said he spends about sixty thousand dollars per year on the lottery, and has won jackpots as large as one hundred thousand dollars.

Steve Dibo of Monroe shows a box filled with thousands of lottery tickets during his daily lottery purchase at News Express at 200 Tunxis Hill Road in Fairfield on Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Dibo said he

R.J. DeLuca, of Stratford, came back to purchase tickets for his father after buying his own Powerball tickets Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 at the BP gas station in Shelton, Conn. Wednesday's Powerball has a jackpot of $500 million.

R.J. DeLuca, of Stratford, came back to purchase tickets for his father after buying his own Powerball tickets Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 at the BP gas station in Shelton, Conn. Wednesday's Powerball has a jackpot

John Sibilio, of Shelton, purchases his daily lottery tickets Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 at the BP gas station in Shelton, Conn. Wednesday's Powerball has a jackpot of $500 million.

John Sibilio, of Shelton, purchases his daily lottery tickets Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 at the BP gas station in Shelton, Conn. Wednesday's Powerball has a jackpot of $500 million.

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Jamie Robertine, of Shelton, buys lottery tickets for her office pool Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 at the BP gas station in Shelton, Conn. Wednesday's Powerball has a jackpot of $500 million.

Jamie Robertine, of Shelton, buys lottery tickets for her office pool Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 at the BP gas station in Shelton, Conn. Wednesday's Powerball has a jackpot of $500 million.

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Three winning tickets worth at least $1 million each were sold in Connecticut for Wednesday's record $579.9 million Powerball jackpot, but the big prize eluded the state, a lottery official said Thursday.

Two of the tickets are $1 million winners; the third is worth $2 million because that ticket also had the sixth, or Powerball number correct, officials said. None of the winners had come forward by midday Thursday and the Connecticut Lottery also did not have the names of the vendors where the winning tickets were sold.

Officials said the winning individuals or groups have six months to pick up their prizes. Each vendor who sold one of the winning Powerball tickets will receive a $2,000 bonus from the Connecticut Lottery.

Overall, Powerball officials say 148,555 tickets that won some prize were sold in Connecticut.

Two jackpot tickets were sold, one in Arizona, the other in Missouri. Nearly nine million tickets that won a prize were sold nationwide.